Portable washstand.



FLW. SCHMIDT. PORTABLE WASVHSTAND.

APPLICATION FILED Dmmo, 1913.

1, 1 1 3,495. Patented oen. 13, 1914.

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i FREDERICK WM. SCHMIDT, 0F CONGEB, MINNESOTA.

PORTABLE WASHSTAND.

Speeication of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 13, 1.914.

Application led December 20, 1913. Serial No. 808,025.

vaccompanying drawings.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in portable wash stands and has for its primary object to provide a device of this character which will be of extremely simple construction and cheap to manufacture.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which will be. composed of the minimum number of parts of simple formation and which will be properly braced,

whereby the device will be supported in upright position without the necessity of per- 'manently attaching the same to a stationary support.

A further object is to provide a device of this character 4which will'be constructed in such manner that the height of the bowl or Huid container may be readily regulated, as

' desired.

lscribed, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the complete device; Fig. 2 is a front elevational view thereof; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevational view; and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevational view, partly in section.

Referring more specifically to the drawings in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 designates the standards whichare connected at their opposite ends by the upper and lower cross pieces 2 and 3, res ectively, and which are supported in uprig t position by the inclined forwardly directed supporting legs 4 which are connected to the standards 1 and braced by the hor? zontal bars 5. The standards 1 are provided with the upwardly directed teeth 6 on their forward longitudinal faces near their lower ends while the upwardly directed teeth 7 are provided upon the rear longitudinal edges of .said standards adjacent the upper l ends of the latter.

The bowl or fluid containing member 9 is supported upon the longitudinal frame members 10 having opposite outwardly directed upper edges 11 of said bowl or fluid containing member engaged upon said longitudinal framemembers 10. It will be understood that the longitudinal frame members 10 are yinwardly of the standards 1 and are connected at their rear ends by the rear transverse frame member 12,' which is adapted for engagement with the upwardly directed teeth 7 on the rear longitudinal edges of said standards near the upper ends of the latter.

The longitudinal frame members 10 are connected at their forward ends by the for-- ward transverse frame member 13, thereby retaining the longitudinal frame members in proper spaced relation. Pivoted to the forward ends of the longitudinal frame members 10 arethe rearwardly and downwardly inclined frame supportin members 14 which are connected at their lower ends by the transverse connecting bar 15. The lower ends of the frame lsupporting members 14 are adapted for engagement with the first set of teeth 6 on the forward faces of the standards 1 adjacent the lower edges thereof.

The longitudinal frame members 10 are braced by the diagonal brace bars 17 having their upper ends connected therewith while their lower ends are connected to the frame supporting members 14. A transverse bar 18 is provided between the bowl or uid containing member 9 and the standards 1 and has its opposite ends connected to the longitudinal frame members 10. By grasping this transverse bar 18 or rearwardly toward the standards 1, the rear transverse frame member 12 will be disengaged from the teeth 7 and the frame, together with the frame supporting members 14 and the bowl or uid containing member 9 may be raised or lowered to the desired position and the rear transverse frame member 12 again engaged with the teeth 7.

. From the foregoing, it will be clearly apparent that I have provided a portable wash stand of extremely simple construction and `1oo and moving the supporting frame inwardly which may be readily placed in position and properly adjusted to place the bowl or fluid containing member in horizontal position and the proper distance from the surface upon which the standards and supporting legs rest. It will also be evident that the device may be readily and cheaply manufactured and may,.if desired, be employed as a sink or the like, as well as a wash stand.

Vhile I have shown the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be made within the sco e of the appended claim Without departing fiiom the spirit of my invention or'sacrificing any of the advantages of the same.

Vhat I claim is :-I

A device of the character described com- 2f prising standards having teeth adjacent their opposite ends, the teeth of each of the standards at one extremity being reversely disposed relative to the teeth at the opposite extremity, a supporting frame comprising spaced bars disposed inwardly of the standards and having adjacent extremities connected by a transverse bar, the extremities whereof being projected beyond the parallel bars and adapted to engage the teeth at the upper extremities of the standards, bracing means for the supporting' frame engageable with the notches at the lower end of the standards.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix myI Witnesses:

I. H. HoEL, OMER HOEL. 

